Movies

  • Random Sunday Stuff

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    Long time no post, I know. Balance between personal and professional life is always a time juggle and with the kids on vacation (while I’m not), it gets harder to dedicate some time to write. I’ll just drop a few rants here, some will be developed in individual posts later down the road. New Laptop,…

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  • The Spice Must Flow…

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    Do you love Dune? I do. It’s one of my favorite books of all time. And the movie? David Lynch’s take on the story is the best we’ll have until someone comes along and shoots another Dune movie. Still, there are guys like this one that go beyond everything and make a cut from all the released…

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  • Missing old friends

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      I knew Calvin & Hobbes when they were printed in Portugal for the first time by the newspaper Público. My father bought it every day and I read religiously every strip until one day I grew out of it. My 20’s had that effect in me, I left behind some of the best things…

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  • Happy 30th RotJ…

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    Return of the Jedi was one of the first movies I remember watching in a movie theater. I was five back then and till this day I still can’t figure out how my parents sneak me in the São Jorge movie theater in Lisbon, in a after noon screening. Anyway, the experience was so memorable that…

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  • Big things have small beginnings

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    The title of this post is one of the most significant lines of David, one of the main characters in Prometheus and it’s perhaps the best way to describe Ridley Scott’s latest sci-fi movie. First, let me get just one thing out-of-the-way. Prometheus is a great movie, one of the best sci-fi movies of the…

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  • RIP Ralph Mcquarrie

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    Ralph was one of the main reasons why the original Star Wars trilogy was is so damn awesome. His work gave shape to what Star Wars came to be, in such a spectacular way that still to this day I gaze to the artwork he created, sometimes enjoying his artwork more than the movies themselves. He’s…

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